Brown, R-Mass., is featured in two pictures in the newsletter, and Romney takes full ownership of his victory:

As supporters of the PAC, you deserve a thank you, the newsletter from Romneys Free Strong America PAC reads. Your support made it possible for Governor Romney to get behind Senator Brown from the very beginning, when polls showed him a 30-point underdog and everyone assumed the outcome was pre-ordained in favor of the Democrats.

Governor Romney asked his entire political team to help the then-unknown Brown, and he raised early money for him at a time when very few people would give him a second look.

Browns campaign manager, Beth Lindstrom, was a member of Romneys Cabinet; his press secretary, Felix Browne, was a deputy press secretary under Gov. Romney; Brown finance director Priscilla Ruzzo held that same post in Romneys 1994 Senate race; and Will Ritter was a key advance staffer for Romney before he worked for Browns campaign.

As painful as it must be for some Freepers to admit, it’s not BS, it’s entirely factual. Scott Brown has said as much. That’s why Scott Brown had Mitt Romney introduce him when he made his victory speech.

ROMNEY DOES NOT HAVE SMARTS. HE’S JUST THE ESTABLISHMENT’S GUY. REMEMBER 2008. HE WAS THE FRONT RUNNER. HAD IT ALL WRAPPED UP ACCORDING THE THE EXPERTS. HAD THE MONEY THE ENDORSEMENTS. HAD THE BUSH MACHINE. BUT THE VOTERS REJECTED HIM. 2012 WILL BE A REPLAY FOR MITT. HE’S A TURD IN A PUNCH BOWL.

Typical political class whoring. There’s a disease in the political class, they are back stabbing whores who see themselves as royalty. I’m not enough of a student of history to know if it’s ever been this bad before, but it’s hard to imagine. Conditions such as we have now were in place in 1775 and lead to a revolution.

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posted on 02/02/2010 11:48:15 AM PST
by brownsfan
(The average American: Uninformed, and unconcerned.)

The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin." "Im told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palins people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides." "The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romneys former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin." aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said: "These staffers are now out trying to finish her off .hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

In the IL primary, all Republicans running are claiming to be the next Scott Brown. Plus the RNC is sending junk mail claiming credit for Scott Brown’s win and demanding money. The whoring is sickening.

Brown, R-Mass., is featured in two pictures in the newsletter, and Romney takes full ownership of his victory:

As supporters of the PAC, you deserve a thank you, the newsletter from Romneys Free Strong America PAC reads. Your support made it possible for Governor Romney to get behind Senator Brown from the very beginning, when polls showed him a 30-point underdog and everyone assumed the outcome was pre-ordained in favor of the Democrats.

Governor Romney asked his entire political team to help the then-unknown Brown, and he raised early money for him at a time when very few people would give him a second look.

Where does Klein get the full ownership business? The newsletter correctly states that Romney did a early fund raiser for Brown, and made his political team available. These are facts, and the newsletter leaves it up to the reader to determine whether these actions were or were not effective. This is a long way from a claim of full ownership.

I'm grateful to Mitt for providing skilled manpower and timely financing to Scott Brown's campaign while Steele was writing a book, the RNC was supporting DeeDee Scozzafava, and John Cornyn, and the National Republican Senatorial Campaign were contemplating their navels.

I hope I'm not the only one who's willing to give credit where credit is due. I'll continue to send what money I can to Mitt's PAC rather than waste it to on the RNC.

By supporting a guy who went against his own church's principled pro-life viewpoints because he thought running to the left of the Swimmer on abortion would help him in his 1992 Senate run? Some spiritual vision.

One of the keys here at FR was to make sure not to mention how involved Romney was in the Brown campaign — although that should have been clear to everybody, since the campaign was being run by former Romney staffers, and Romney’s statewide organization was essential for Brown, who was a regional candidate.

Anyway, Brown was like a 2002 version of Romney, without the Mormonism. (Brown is Christian Reformed).

over? did you say over? Nothing is over until Mitt commissions a $30,000 painting!

The portrait depicts the governor seated at the front edge of his desk wearing his trademark business suit. Beside him is a small framed photo of his wife, Ann, and ... [wait for it] ... a copy of the health care reform law he called his greatest achievement.

When Brown first started, Romney cmapaigned with him, and held multiple public fundraising events.

However, after that, Brown worked at separating himself from conservatives, and instead invited in people like Rudy Giuliani, while asking groups like the RNC to keep out of his race, because he was running an “independent”, “down-home” race, not an “outsider” race.

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